Firestarter
A young girl with the telekinetic ability to start fires goes on the run with her father in Firestarter.
A young girl with the telekinetic ability to start fires goes on the run with her father in Firestarter. When they were younger, Andy McGee (Zac Efron) and his wife Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) were subjects of a drug trial conducted by Dr. Joseph Wanless (Kurtwood Smith), which gave them telepathic and telekinetic abilities respectively. These psychic abilities have been inherited by their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), who starts fires with her mind whenever she is agitated. When one of Charlie’s outbursts at school results in their cover being blown, the family goes on the run from the government agency DSI, led by Captain Hollister (Gloria Reuben), who sends the Native American bounty hunter Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes) on their trail.
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